1871-S $5 MS(PCGS#8324)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

6311

Grade

AU53

Price

2,880

Lot Description

Bright, vivid, golden-wheat surfaces also exhibit delicate champagne-pink overtones. This piece is boldly defined in most areas with appreciable luster on both sides. Only 25,000 examples were struck, and as with virtually every San Francisco Mint gold issue of the era, most saw heavy commercial duty and VF and Choice VF are the grades most often seen. Any finer and condition rarity combines with absolute scarcity for the 1871-S half eagle. If you have an interest in the present piece you should bid liberally, as it will most assuredly be some time before a comparable specimen comes up for public auction.